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“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” — Ponyboy, The Outsiders

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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” — Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby

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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” — Slim, Of Mice and Men

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“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” — Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

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“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.” — Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina

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“I don’t want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you.” – Will Traynor, Me Before You

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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.” — Sara Fitzgerald, My Sister’s Keeper

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” — Offred, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.” — Scarlet O’Hara, Gone with the Wind

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“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried part of my life along with my dog.” — Billy Colman, Where the Red Fern Grows

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“You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.” — Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you’d have a little love left over for the next one.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved

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“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?” — Jodi Picoult, 19 Minutes

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“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.” — Chiyo Sakamoto, Memoirs of a Geisha

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“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.” — Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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“The term ‘forgive and forget’ doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes.” — Pierce, Abandon

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“You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself.” — Paul ‘Fred’ Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.” — Siobhan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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“I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other, and then take it back.” — Eleanor Douglas, Eleanor & Park

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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.” — Midori, Norwegian Wood

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“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.” — V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State

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“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself. As if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.” — Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault in Our Stars

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I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.” ― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

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“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.” — Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

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“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved.” — Shug Avery, The Color Purple

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“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” ― Lang Leav, Sad Girls

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“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.” — Catelyn Stark, A Clash of Kings

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“Every night I cut out my own heart. But in the morning it was full again.” —
Almásy, The English Patient

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“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” — David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law

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“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.” — Kathy, Never Let Me Go

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“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” — Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

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“It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.” ― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

63.

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.” ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.” — Connor Lassiter, Unwind

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“No one wants to listen to our sad stories unless they are smoothed over with a joke or nice melody. And even then, not always. No one wants to hear a woman talking or writing about pain in a way that suggests that it doesn’t end.” — Jessica Valenti, Sex Object

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“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.” ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.” ― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

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“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.” — Maxon Schreave, The One

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“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.” — Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness

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“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.” ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life’s crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.” ― Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” ― Stephen King, The Body

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“God is in his heaven and he don’t care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care and do all you need to do behind his back.” ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

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“Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.” ― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped

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“Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up.” ― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

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“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

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“You have to believe it and you hate it. I don’t have to and I think it’s beautiful.” ― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

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“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.” ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key

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“Heaven is comfort, but it’s still not living.” ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles